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Japanese invasion of Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. The Japanese established a puppet state, called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II. -
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Hitler made Chancellor of Germany
, President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fÜhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany. -
munich pact
An agreement between Britain and Germany in 1938, under which Germany was allowed to extend its territory into parts of Czechoslovakia in which German-speaking peoples lived. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain negotiated on behalf of Britain, and Chancellor Adolf Hitler on behalf of Germany. -
Kristallnacht
Also known as The Night of the Broken Glass. On this night, November 9, 1938, almost 200 synagogues were destroyed, over 8,000 Jewish shops were sacked and looted, and tens of thousands of Jews were removed to concentration camps. -
invasion of poland
also known as the September Campaign or Defensive War in Poland and the Poland Campaign or Fall Weib in Germany, was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe. -
dunkirk
a seaport in France, site of the evacuation of a British expeditionary force of over 330,000 men under German fire -
pearl harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii,. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II. -
Bataan Death March
forced march of 90,000 to 100,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese in the Philippines in the early stages of World War II. Starting out from Mariveles, on the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula -
Battle of Midway
, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy, under Admirals Chester W. Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance decisively defeated an attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy -
D-day
the day in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy -
Battle of the Bulge
a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt as World War II was winding down. -
VE-day
the day marking the Allied victory in Europe in 1945. -
The bombing of Hiroshima
Hiroshima was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a populated area -
VJ-day
- the day on which Japan ceased fighting in World War II, the day when Japan formally surrendered.